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As a reporter, I used to cover a township in which the Republican Party, for all practical purposes, did not exist. But it didn’t matter. The township’s Democrats had split into two rival factions that made anything that went on before it look like a love-in.

It’s possible we may see that, in the not too distant future, on the national scene.

On one hand you’ve got the Far Left Crazy crowd, spawned by that old serpent, Bernie Sanders–out-and-out socialist. Indeed, the long psychotic episode that is liberalism has brought this crowd into an embrace of preposterous and suicidal policies–“open borders” and “transgender,” to name just two. Knowing no civics at all, they think their capture of a majority (not a very big majority) in the House of Representatives will empower them to do all sorts of things–erase the borders, repeal the tax cuts, bring back Obamacare in all its glory, impeach the president, vice president, and anybody else who gets in their way–which the Republican Senate can effortlessly stop them from doing.

Unable to get their way, their frustration will reach the point where it must erupt. And before it blows, they’re going to aim it at somebody.

On the other hand you’ve got the older, Nancy Pelosi, Mask of Sanity Democrats, wedded to the slow, incremental transformation of America into a socialist hellhole. Don’t laugh–incrementalism has gotten them very far. They’ve learned that the best way to go about their business is to painstakingly bamboozle the American people. And in the meantime, the legislation they can’t pass… wait for some Democrat judge to rule it into “law.”

The problem with this is, it takes time: and meanwhile, Donald Trump is appointing federal judges and the Senate is confirming them. This drives the younger rats crazy. They burn to attack with teeth and claws–but the Mask of Sanity faction is in their way.

Look for the thing to blow sky-high in 2020, when the Far Left Crazy has some Open Borders wacko to nominate for president–with a transgender running mate–and the Mask of Sanity cabal sinks him or her or xer with some dirty tricks so they can run Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or some other living fossil.

I really hate it, every two years, having to pray frantically for my country–praying we can dodge yet another bullet. Last Election Day, 2016, we dodged a freakin’ cannonball. I say “we dodged,” but what really happens is, God spares us. And tomorrow is another Election Day already: another bullet that must be dodged.

Lord, we really are trying to push this country back onto the right course: and you’ve got to know how badly we need your help. The delicate machinery of our republic has been given up to rust and corruption for many years, and there are many people who will have it so. They own the nooze media, the education establishment, Hollywood, at least half the big business corporations… and they own the Democrat Party. And they tell us, right up front, that what they want is “open borders” (quick quiz: name a country, any country, just one, that actually has had open borders–betcha can’t!), transgenderism, strangulation of the national economy, more abortions, the authority to throw people into prison for not believing in Climbit Change, purposeful corruption and politicization of all agencies of government, and a general suppression of the Christian religion. We know they’re for these things because they’ve said so!

So again we pray: Lord, you know who your enemies are: please smite them. Blast them with a great defeat that will keep them out of power forever. You know what they stand for, you know what they’ve done, and you know what they mean to do if they ever get the chance.

Deliver us again, O Lord, out of the hands of Democrats–I was going to say, “and other Far Left Crazy loons,” but it seems all of them are in the Democrat Party now, so saying so would be redundant. Deliver us, O Lord our God; in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Like this:

Time was, we had a constitutional republic divided into three branches, legislative, executive, and judicial. That’s still on the books; but in practice we have a whole new form of government, as yet unnamed, under which we live.

It, too, has three branches: the high courts, the news media, and the Democrat Party.

The Party decides what is to be. The media, along with our schools and colleges, tell the public what is to be, and why it must be, and that anyone who opposes it is a biggit and a racist and a hater. And then the high courts ram it through.

The new form of government keeps the outward appearance of the old. There’s still an executive branch, but its personnel function in opposition to the president and their chief role is to subvert the president. There’s still a legislative branch, but its only function is to rubber-stamp tax increases. And of course there’s still the court system, to hand down “laws” that could never enjoy enough public support to be legislated the old-fashioned way.

It need hardly be said that our new form of government is not lawful. The Constitution is the law of the land. On paper. In practice, the new government makes up the law as it goes along. Which really isn’t “law” at all, as civilized nations have always understood it. But hey, if it works in Venezuela, it’ll work here.

The little prig went on to abuse Democrat grande dame Nancy Pelosi for being “old” (she’s 78, but if she was any brighter at 18 than she is now, that would be astounding). He has called for laws putting an age limit on serving politicians and political candidates.

He’s too young to remember what happened to Cindy Sheehan after she bashed the Democrat establishment: headfirst into oblivion.

How long will they let him bite the hand that raised him up?

Prediction: Octavio-Cortez will be the next to chomp that hand. And I don’t need a crystal ball to see that coming.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to allow this exceptionally broad and nebulous lawsuit to continue, while warning the loopy judge in Oregon not to let it get out of hand. Which only means it will, and then they’ll have to step in and stop it.

Using children as human shields in any public controversy: I learned to loathe that tactic when I was a local news reporter in the 1970s. Every time the teachers’ union wanted more money, they trotted out the little kiddies to plead tearfully for their sainted teachers–who were already making several times the salaries earned by the poor sods who had to pay the school tax, plus three months off in the summer. There is something alarmingly abnormal about any child who doesn’t want to see a teachers’ strike and get a break from school.

Anyhow, this is what leftids always do. When you’ve got no facts to support your position, no truth that you can tell, it’s time to throw the children into the breach.

Warren, who pretends to be a Native American when she isn’t, told some noozie on CNBC that the tax cuts have got to go, and it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to replace them with, oh, maybe a 50% tax rate.

Hot dog! That’s almost as appealing as open borders! There’s just no stopping these Democrats. They know what we, the people, want! And we don’t want our freakin’ money.

Besides all this, Sen. Warren is a bona fide intellectual who used to be a college professor–prime presidential timber! But that’ll have to wait till 2020. The business at hand is to take over Congress and roll back those pesky tax cuts.

Browsing around assorted news stories this weekend, and reading the comments from assorted readers, I think I have to say that Democrats are now wedded to the Russian Collusion Myth: that is, Hillary Clinton is the rightful president–yeesh, the Once and Future President, if you will–but she was cheated out of it by Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Russians. It has been added to their scriptures, along with some verses declaring that no illegal aliens voted for Hillary, not even in California or Chicago.

Go ahead, ask them what form the Great Collusion took. Like, what did the Russians actually do? Government investigators swear there was no tampering with the voting machines and not a single vote was changed, or in any way affected, by anything “the Russians,” whoever they were, did. What did “the Russians” do, to cheat Hillary out of the presidency? And why would they not want to deal with a corrupt politician–that would be Hillary–whose cooperation they already knew to be always on sale? A big enough donation to the Clinton Foundation, and you get the nuclear launch codes. If anything, Russian bad guys would have wanted Hillary to be president!

But the Democrats sit down by the waters of the Potomac and weep. It’s so unfair! It was Her Turn to be president! Her turn! She simply could not have lost without all that Russian cheating!

I’m old enough to notice that Democrats never got this upset about Russian tanks rolling into Hungary.

It remains to be seen whether their faith in Her Turn is strong enough to move them to nominate Hillary again. Once more into the breach, dear friends! This time it’ll work! This time we’ll keep the Russians out, and this time she will win!

After I wrote this and sent it in, Schumer and Pelosi made some tepid comments suggesting that maybe, y’know, Maxine Waters’ call for Democrats to harass and intimidate officials was, like, maybe not exactly the best thing. It was hardly a rebuke.